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What They Say HTRC has teased a small Vive headset in social media and emails. The image is very dark but if you try to brighten it to get more details, it just reveals the text ‘nice try!’. What We Think HTC’s Vive Flow is already said to be the smallest headset available outside China. … Read more
What They Say RoadtoVR published a since deleted clip that seems to show the view when a Meta Quest Pro headset is used in the Immersed app and that makes us of its hand tracking and mixed reality technology. What We Think It’s hard to keep up with the volume of intentional and inadvertent leaks … Read more
What They Say Shenzen Timewaying Technology has been granted DCI approval for its LA4K-20 display. The test used a Dolby Vision IMB and the system is the second from the firm to be approved, after the LA2K-10 system was given the OK in December 2021. Timewaying is reported to be the largest 3D equipment supplier for … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. For the next couple of weeks, we will have more links and fewer/shorter articles because of Bob’s vacation. Counterpoint looks at Google’s Pixel 7, the logic for the … Read more
As you may know, we have had the privilege and pleasure of reuniting with our pal and colleague Bob Raikes and have acquired Display Daily. One of our journalist friends commented, “Nice. Displays are tricky technology.” You think monitors are tricky. . . GPUs are black magic. I had my doubts about Intel’s commitment to GPUs … Read more
What They Say Innolux and AUO released their monthly data and unsurprisingly, given the weak market conditions, the firms were both well down. Innolux said that its revenues were up 11.1% on August in September, to $533 million, down 42.4% on 2021. Large panel shipments were up 6.7% to 9.23 million and small/medium panels were … Read more
What They Say Google has said that it plans to require hardware makers to support the AV1 codec in tablets and smartphones to allow support for Android 14, which is due to be in beta in April 2023. YouTube now re-encodes all of its 4K and 8K videos in AV1 according to Porotocol and Google … Read more
What They Say Protocol Entertainment reported that Amazon has canned the Glow projection devices after poor sales. The aim of the device was to enable video interaction with children remotely for caregivers, grandparents and others. Kids are terrible cameramen,” Behrang Assadi, who used to head marketing for Amazon Glow, told Protoc some time ago. “They … Read more
What They Say LG said that its webOS is now available on up to 200 partner brands including Seiki, Eko, Stream System, Konka, Aiwa and Hyundai – a ten-fold increase from when LG commenced licensing its webOS ecosystem in early 2021. The firm also said that the first webOS Hub-powered OLED TVs from LG’s partner TV brands … Read more
What They Say Invidis reports that Screen Experts of Münster in Germany has developed a patented coating process for making LED displays fireproof and called, imaginitively enough ‘Screen Fire Protectio’ or SFP. No details of the multi-layer process are disclosed, but there are two different layers. As a result, the displays can achieve building material classes A2-s1-d0 … Read more
What They Say Tom’s Hardware reviewed the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition GPU and add-in board. The review suggests it might be an alternative to AMD or Nvidia, especially for AV1 and VP9 encoding. However, we noted a comment about a Smooth Sync feature that we had previously missed. The feature effectively blurs or interpolates the … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. The WSJ tests Apple Crash detection, by crashing some cars. Sasmung Looks at the future of TV (hint, Samsung doesn’t think they are going to get smaller or less important!) … Read more
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